Every day is Mother's Day...
... is what my mama says. We had to say goodbye to her visit yesterday. It was so awesome to have her stay with us and get reaquainted with Edie. The days went whizzing by (oh yeah, Edie's pretty much potty trained right now). It was a blissful ten days. My mom loves her coffee like me so she understands the importance of downing one before anything else can happen at least without the same fun levels, she loves Edie so she played with her pretty much constantly allowing to get vast amounts scratched off of my to-do list and she loves sewing so was able to give me a tutorial on making the Olivia dress.
Gawd, it turned out so cute and Edie loves it. She always refers to her "petitcoat". "Can I take my petitcoat off?" she says. So dang, darn-it cute. Makes me kick myself for quiting the talking with an English accent around her plan because that would have been just too precious; "Mummy, may I relinquish my knickers, frock and petticoat, please?" with a little bit of a Von Trapp child's accent sprinkled in.
The dress making was kind of a tag team effort. "Kind of" because it started out with my mom cuts this while I sew that, then I cut this then she sews that. But it turned more into I put this down to nap and you finish that. But though I was MIA for the last bit of construction my mom was good at filling me in on short cuts and tips and tricks that her decades of seamstressing has taught her. Of course, above all it was nice to just hang with her all day long over coffee, beer and Edie and laugh lots and open myself to her motherly advice and unconditional love.
Edie looks like a doll in her new petticoat dress. You are truly blessed to have such a lovely mother in your life!
Posted by: Robin | May 28, 2007 at 09:33 AM
That top photo should really be in a black and white coffee table book about families. It's so full of life and love...and that expression on the little one -- love it.
The petticoat dress is darling & so is the little model. I really like that it has a hood.
And yay for moms!
Posted by: KJ | May 29, 2007 at 05:14 AM
Oh my, love everyone's outfits in this post. Too cute.
Posted by: nicole | May 29, 2007 at 02:38 PM
i love that she calls it a petticoat... dang... your daughter is way too cute! (and so are you and your mum... geez!)
Posted by: tiffany jewell | May 30, 2007 at 05:03 PM
I can see why the monks might want your daughter, she does have an inner-glow!
Posted by: Kim | February 17, 2008 at 11:03 AM